Oops, intended to reply to the post above: by hedwards (940851) writes: Foe of a Friend on Sun Nov 28, '10 07:01 PM (#34370814) I'm pretty sure that a chesty woman with any sort of writing on here shirt will get attention much more quickly. I've always sort of wondered on what basis they get upset for people looking. If you don't want to get looked at putting writing on the shirt is probably not the wisest approach.
Almost certainly edible. After all, turkeys are very susceptible to cancer. The odds that you have not already eaten turkey cancer (small ones) are quite low.
The follicles where the feathers are supposed to come out. It's actually a pretty hideous disease. The microbe that causes it interferes with the proteins that construct the feather, so all you get is the central rod coming out of the follicle.
That completely misses the point of my post. The point isn't to have the police arrest the repo man (unless they are trespassing, which it sounds like they might have been), but rather just not to approach someone who might be a repo man, or might be a crazed meth addict with a gun, and instead have a trained professional with body armor do it.
Sorry, bad slip of the fingers there, but I don't think it really changes the content of the message. I don't expect anyone thinks better of Kuwaiti justice or prisons.
Well, I was admittedly thinking of volume of code. The growth of the computer industry means that there are now WAY more processes dependent on java than were ever written in COBOL, even if the relative percentage is smaller.
And I doubt any COBOL work was done at 100K/year for y2k. From what I heard, most of the COBOL experts were billing at $200/hr.
This is a law of opportunity. If those in power don't like what you're photographing, they will arrest you and send you to a dark hole from which you will not return the same person. I doubt they will care if your camera is a 4/3rds.
You want to bet your life on that when the security forces whisk you away to a Saudi Arabian prison? You want to bet you can resist admitting that's really a DSLR under torture?
Well, there's a difference between brave and foolhardy IMO, but I'm glad it worked out for you, and that it didn't turn out to be a thief with a gun casing your house.
Also, you can get the cops to come much faster than an hour (unless you live in a really bad part of town) in most places by saying the magic words 'and it looks like he has a gun drawn'. Later on you just admit being mistaken about that, it was hard to see in the dark.
I'd say the claim that his comment was 'obviously directed at those who just weren't paying their bills' is somewhat undermined by the fact that large numbers of people who read it interpreted it a different way.
It was marked trolling because you didn't say 'that lady should have paid her bills'. You generalized. Lots of people get harassed, painfully, by debt collectors without ever failing to pail a bill. Enough people that it has happened to enough slashdot mods personally to want to moderate your post when they saw it. Think about the percentage of the population that means have been falsely harassed!
You misunderstood. One debt collector has to stop when you request it. Of course that means, knowing they can't make any money on the debt, that they sell the debt to a different agency. That new collector is under no obligation not to call you, until you tell them. And the next one. And the next one. And the next one. Until the remaining value of the debt is so small they can't sell it.
You had someone skulking in your driveway at night, and your solution was to approach them? Way to risk your life for nothing. Call 911 next time, your debt collection problem will go away very quickly.
I've been harassed (and by harassed, I mean contacted multiple times by phone and mail after explaining the situation) by debt collectors 3 times for debts belonging to someone with the same name. That other guy with my name happens to live in the same state which I guess means when they do a search for my name in my state it turns up me.
Having a deadbeat with the same name as you sucks.
The notion that you can get off / drop the phone in the moment of an accident just doesn't seem to jibe with reality. People just don't. Instead, they have massively increased risk of accidents, just like drunk drivers, and it seems to be as universal a negative as driving drunk. It also seems to be even MORE voluntary, since once you're drunk, the decision to drive is made while impaired.
If anything, maybe we should hold cell-drivers more accountable than drunk ones.
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acceleration/deceleration rate is traditionally jerk, not shock.
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by hedwards (940851) writes: Foe of a Friend on Sun Nov 28, '10 07:01 PM (#34370814)
I'm pretty sure that a chesty woman with any sort of writing on here shirt will get attention much more quickly. I've always sort of wondered on what basis they get upset for people looking. If you don't want to get looked at putting writing on the shirt is probably not the wisest approach.
Of course they want to be looked at, just not by you, perv.
It's a case of poor target discrimination.
Were you intentionally being funny about the rate of speed and the deceleration not being the same thing? If so, kudos.
Wolves aren't cute and cuddly, so you don't have to dodge, you can hit them head on guilt-free.
Almost certainly edible. After all, turkeys are very susceptible to cancer. The odds that you have not already eaten turkey cancer (small ones) are quite low.
The follicles where the feathers are supposed to come out. It's actually a pretty hideous disease. The microbe that causes it interferes with the proteins that construct the feather, so all you get is the central rod coming out of the follicle.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/caner
It's definition 8 or 9 I think, down toward the bottom, a disease where birds get cane-like sprouts at their follicles instead of feathers.
That completely misses the point of my post. The point isn't to have the police arrest the repo man (unless they are trespassing, which it sounds like they might have been), but rather just not to approach someone who might be a repo man, or might be a crazed meth addict with a gun, and instead have a trained professional with body armor do it.
Sorry, bad slip of the fingers there, but I don't think it really changes the content of the message. I don't expect anyone thinks better of Kuwaiti justice or prisons.
Well, I was admittedly thinking of volume of code. The growth of the computer industry means that there are now WAY more processes dependent on java than were ever written in COBOL, even if the relative percentage is smaller.
And I doubt any COBOL work was done at 100K/year for y2k. From what I heard, most of the COBOL experts were billing at $200/hr.
This is a law of opportunity. If those in power don't like what you're photographing, they will arrest you and send you to a dark hole from which you will not return the same person. I doubt they will care if your camera is a 4/3rds.
Journalists sign a contract to return all captured souls to their rightful possessors.
You want to bet your life on that when the security forces whisk you away to a Saudi Arabian prison? You want to bet you can resist admitting that's really a DSLR under torture?
That's STILL an aggressive timetable compared to COBOL, and COBOL was hardly as entrenched as java.
Well, there's a difference between brave and foolhardy IMO, but I'm glad it worked out for you, and that it didn't turn out to be a thief with a gun casing your house.
Also, you can get the cops to come much faster than an hour (unless you live in a really bad part of town) in most places by saying the magic words 'and it looks like he has a gun drawn'. Later on you just admit being mistaken about that, it was hard to see in the dark.
I'd say the claim that his comment was 'obviously directed at those who just weren't paying their bills' is somewhat undermined by the fact that large numbers of people who read it interpreted it a different way.
As others have said, 3% merchant fee - 2% cash back = 1% for credit card company.
It was marked trolling because you didn't say 'that lady should have paid her bills'. You generalized. Lots of people get harassed, painfully, by debt collectors without ever failing to pail a bill. Enough people that it has happened to enough slashdot mods personally to want to moderate your post when they saw it. Think about the percentage of the population that means have been falsely harassed!
You misunderstood. One debt collector has to stop when you request it. Of course that means, knowing they can't make any money on the debt, that they sell the debt to a different agency. That new collector is under no obligation not to call you, until you tell them. And the next one. And the next one. And the next one. Until the remaining value of the debt is so small they can't sell it.
You had someone skulking in your driveway at night, and your solution was to approach them? Way to risk your life for nothing. Call 911 next time, your debt collection problem will go away very quickly.
I've been harassed (and by harassed, I mean contacted multiple times by phone and mail after explaining the situation) by debt collectors 3 times for debts belonging to someone with the same name. That other guy with my name happens to live in the same state which I guess means when they do a search for my name in my state it turns up me.
Having a deadbeat with the same name as you sucks.
Well, I may have misanswered when I said yes in response to the earlier scenario. The 10 people somehow deserve to die, then?
Of course. What kind of monster wouldn't?
The notion that you can get off / drop the phone in the moment of an accident just doesn't seem to jibe with reality. People just don't. Instead, they have massively increased risk of accidents, just like drunk drivers, and it seems to be as universal a negative as driving drunk. It also seems to be even MORE voluntary, since once you're drunk, the decision to drive is made while impaired.
If anything, maybe we should hold cell-drivers more accountable than drunk ones.